house minority leader nancy pelosi will run again to keep her job. there had been questions about her future after last week's election. democrats picked up a handful of seats in the house but failed to retake ntrol om republicans. today, the 72-year-old pelosi said fellow democrats encouraged her to stay on. >> my colleagues made it very clear. in fact, i think they must have coordinated with each other because their message was clear: don't even think of leaving. that was what i got over and over and over and over again. and i felt is this a coincidence or >> sreenivasan: pelosi is the only woman ever to serve as speaker of the house, but she lost that position when republicans won a majority in 2010. meanwhile, newly elected indepennt senat ang kng of mne announced he will caucus with democrats. that effectively gives them 55 votes when the new senate convenes in january. the u.s. commander in afghanistan, marine general john allen, won a statement of support today amid questions about his relationship with a florida woman. the military is now inv